law of analogy

From Rene Guenon’s The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, introduction, page 4:

[…] “by virtue of the law of analogy, the lowest point is as it were the obscure reflection or the inverted image of the highest point, from which follows the consequence paradoxical only in appearance, that the most complete absence of all principle implies a sort of ‘counterfiet’ of the principle itself, something that has been expressed in ‘theological’ form in the words ‘Satan is the ape of God.’” […]